Land of the Crooked Tree
Author: Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 350
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 350
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: U. P. Hedrick
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780814318348
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1874, the Hedrick family arrived in L 'Arbre croche or "crooked tree," as the Jesuit missionaries had called it one hundred and fifty years earlier. The wilderness of Little Traverse Bay had just been opened for homesteading, and the Hedricks joined a dozen other white families in the trading post of Little Traverse, situated in virgin forest. From the age of four until he left the area at eighteen, U. P. Hedrick saw the shabby trading post rum into the tidy village of Harbor Springs. In those years, mechanized logging replaced the homesteader's crosscut saw; the passenger pigeon disappeared; and the railroad arrived. Hedrick writes of his youth and shows himself to be a sharp and often witty observer of the little details of domestic life on the Michigan frontier. He expounds on cooking whitefish and blackberry rolypoly, on the farmer's "arsenal of axes," on pigs and their parts-both edible and useful, on wild and cultivated fruits, on trees, on kettles, and on Indians of the area. Lovers of Michigan's woods and fields, lakes and rivers; professional historians; and storytellers will find themselves delighted by Hedrick's account. The Land of the Crooked Tree is a Great Lakes Books reprint.
Author: John Couchois Wright
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Stories and legends of L'Arbre Croche, an Ottawa mission district in Emmet County, Michigan.
Author: Jeni Tetamore
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Published: 2007-10-23
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781434802316
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Watch as a young tree finds that growing up different can be a good thing.
Author: John Couchois Wright
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 134
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Stories and legends of L'Arbre Croche, an Ottawa Indian mission district in Emmet County, Michigan.
Author: Robert Charles Wilson
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2006-05-08
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780472031528
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A gripping horror tale that deftly weaves Indian lore with suspense amid a northern Michigan setting
Author: Esther Bender
Publisher: Herald Press (VA)
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780836190267
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over a period of two hundred years, a tree grows thick and crooked, affecting and affected by both animals and humans, but never ceasing to grow.
Author: W. Bruce Wingo
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2003-11
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 0595289037
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1959, two thirteen year old boys discover a secret that the town of Hole, Georgia, would rather remain buried. No one wants to talk about the decorated African American soldier lynched on a hot summer night in 1919. But the event cannot be ignored since several impressionable citizens of the town claim they have seen the "haint" of the murdered soldier dancing around the old live oak tree in the city park--always around midnight on Independence Day. The two boys decide they must discover whether the ghost is real or just the imagination of a guilt-ridden community. Darrel Cannon and his new friend, Bumpy Foster, set out to find the truth. They soon ally themselves with an old black stonecutter who seems to know much more than he is willing to tell. Their journey through the humid summer leads to adventure and danger but also to enlightenment. In the aftermath of the flaming climax, Darrel Cannon discovers that the senseless violence of a bygone era can forever change a boy's world view.